Re: OT: Vanilla not for embedded?! Re: Kernel 2.6 size increase - get_current()?

Francois Romieu
2003-07-27T12:50:58Z

Ihar Philips Filipau <filia@softhome.net> :
[...]
> Patches to remove mandatory (for 2.2/2.0) PCI/IDE support were pretty
> common too.
> Patch to shrink network hashes - norm of life.
> Patch to kill PCI names database.
> And this is only things I was using personally (and I remember about)
> in my short 4 years carrier.

Would you mind publishing the patches ?

> CONFIG_TINY - http://lwn.net/Articles/14186/ - got something like
> this merged? - so I'm the first guy in the download queue on ftp.kernel.org!

See CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

[...]
> For some reasons all "improvements" to kernel had lead to increase of
> kernel size, not decrease. Strange, isn't it?

No time for sarcasm here.

Regards

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Ueimor